DS statement on Cummings is shameful

[SouthWestmom]

Basically I am sceptical about how terrible this could be to get for all of us - the mild illness stuff has been dropped as not helpful to the general lock us all up thing.

Regardless as a law abiding person I've stuck to the rules.

Which I thought meant you had to self isolate if you had symptoms and no, you couldn't go somewhere easier. If you had kids you all stayed in together, relied on deliveries or the local council support schemes and 111 if it was bad.

So I'm sickened by the knot tying in getting Cummings off the hook.

Well the welfare of his child is important - but clearly not all the other children struggling in families with no support. Families that have been desperate for help and have not been given it.

Where did the original story come from? Was it released now to hurry up the second wave? I don't know what to believe anymore! It makes no sense why cant they just be truthful!

@FliesandPies

I don't like him full stop he has helped to fuck up our politics and shows total disdain for anyone outside his circle. What's to like?

You've just proven my very point. You don't like his politics, you don't agree with his politics, you don't like Brexit either. That's my point!!

What I meant by debate, was to discuss the issue at hand with DC and isolation - not just slagging him because you hate him - it's, as I say, so transparent. Why even bring up the fact that you hate him anyway or think he's a twat - just discuss the issue.

Dan Hodges? What a twat. Who let him in? Never heard of him and just as well because he is an absolute idiot. He's a journalist? For the Daily Mail? Well I suppose that's a news source of sorts. BBC, please keep him off the screen. Tosser.

Maybe DC’s parents are getting in the way of his inheritance.

VenusTiger are you the thread police? Why does it pain you so that people find Cummings personally distasteful?

Mrsspooky joint investigation by the mirror and the guardian

@Sockwomble and we know that how? Are any of the people who have sought family help in the limelight as DC is for us to discuss?

My son's friend's mom is a nurse and her 3 kids have been visiting grandparents garden and on VE day all through lockdown - did they practice social distancing as DC did? who knows? he's in the limelight, he's hated by most pps on here either way. I don't see any discussion on these lot who also broke lockdown rules:

www.itv.com/news/2020-05-22/the-high-profile-figures-who-have-breached-lockdown-restrictions/

@MaxNormal it doesn't pain me, it's just so boring everytime discussions about important issues result in people just blatantly slagging them off and saying that basically they hate him, so it doesn't matter what you bring to the discussion, you hate him - it becomes an echo chamber with no real meat for debate.

MN posters knew Cummings was in Durham at the time .....
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/a3865896-Dominic-Cummings-self-isolating?

The response to the BBC journalist....

If poor Dom seriously had no one and nothing to do for a child in the event that the second parent became ill, then what a bloody awful employer 10 Downing Street must be and what terrible lack of care they provide for employees, and how very sad his whacking huge income just wasn't enough to do what single parents on minimum wage have managed to do because they had to.

If you've got bloody Covid how insane do you have to be to sit your partner next to them and your four year old in the back and breathe all over them for 250 miles?

Stupid man, just incredibly stupid and arrogant.

I don't see any discussion on these lot who also broke lockdown rules:

There were plenty of threads about Ferguson and Calderwood, when the news broke about them flouting the rules.

Was he that worried about his own ability to look after a four year old that he'd rather drive across the country?

Maybe DC’s parents are getting in the way of his inheritance. Disgusting.
DC's uncle died from Covid complications.

Venus tiger- your son's friend's mum is not in the heart of government.

DC is and he thought he was above the law. But listening to the briefing today he is also clearly unable to look after his own child.

I am beyond words.

When I had possible Covid my husband managed to look after me and two children and work from home. We self isolated. Never did it occur to us to drive to older relatives for help. That would put them in danger. Friends and neighbours helped with dropping off milk etc. We could not get a food delivery slot- but had food in the freezer etc

I also would have felt far too ill to even be a passenger in a car for that length of time.

His actions can not be defended.

derxa yes it does make him exposing them to the virus particularly disgusting, doesn't it?

@ChickenNuggetsChipsAndBeans she's an NHS worker that's a pretty big issue is it not?

Do we know how our 4yr old child might be feeling to learn that parents have symptoms of the virus?

VenusTiger I personally know families with children with complex needs who have had no respite and have been denied school places as vulnerable children because all the special schools are shut. Apparently the welfare of those children doesn't matter.

derxa yes it does make him exposing them to the virus particularly disgusting, doesn't it? He stayed in a separate house on their farm.

He stayed in a separate house on their farm.
Not according to the police report at the time
(or the MN thread of people who spotted him)

I don't think we should let ourselves get distracted from the facts. This couple, one or both of whom were displaying symptoms, chose to travel almost the length of England rather than making any other plan to cope with the situation, to parents who will certainly be well into their seventies. One member of said couple is a senior government advisor and member of SAGE, whose job it was to formulate our lockdown rules.

Not only this, but Downing Street and senior cabinet members are now defending these actions.

I feel taken for a total fool.

derxa I don't understand why you're so keen to defend Cummings? If he has his way over Brexit, which looks likely he'll be the author of substantial misery to the farming community.

I took my son out for a walk in the week first time he'd been out in 57 days!!! (we have a big garden) I haven't flouted any lockdown rules, but are there any of us here who would make this choice that DC made in his position? Knowing you could take your son somewhere safe, as he may be feeling very scared, somewhere that is still following social distancing rules?

No help? What about his SIL who lives in London?

It smacks of him using his child as an excuse for his behaviour. If they were both ill at the same time, who drove there anyway?

Very, very badly handled by the Government who could have used it as a way to show that we really are all in it together rather than one rule for them and one rule for everyone else.